THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 17, 1917.
HUNGER MAY PROVE
SAVIOR OF RUSSIA
Jrotzky, Rabid Pro-German,
Replaces Lenine in Council
of Extremist Party.
FOOD SCARO'TY is FERIOUS
Anything Left at Restaurant ileal
Js C'arefnllj- Wrapped TTp and
Carried Home Tea Is Only
Article Tlxat All May Enjoy.
BT RHETA CHILDE DORR.
CThirTeenth of a series of articles teTlingr
he InsWc story of Russia's revolt. Copy
rlRlit. I!'17. by the New York Evening Mail.
Published by arrangement.)
While there are indications that the
last convention held in Petrograd by
the Russian Socialists, the so-called
Democratic Council, ended In a partial
victory for lierensky, there remains
every evidence that the Bolshevik! ele
ment is still very strong. Kerensky
succeeded in forming a coalition min
istry, but the Petrograd Council of Sol
diers' and Workmen's Delegates at the
ame time succeeded in electing &
Bolshevikl central executive committee
with the notorious Leon Trotzky as
chairman, displacing X. C. Tcheidse,
the Georgian Duma member prominent
in the council, but against whose sin
cerity and honesty 1 never heard a
word.
Trotzky was elected because the
Bolshevikl couldn't get Lenine back.
There were not enough bold spirits in
the Democratic Council to force from
the. government a promise of immunity
from arrest for Lenine, should he ap
pear in a meeting, so he was kept In
the background and Trotzky was made
chairman of the Petrograd executive
committee in his stead.
Lenine Still Lender.
Lenine is the real leader of the
Bolshevikl today, exactly as he was
during the fateful days of July, when,
he sent mutinous soldiers and idle
workmen out on the streets of the
capital with machine guns to murder
the populace. Trotzy, however, is an
able and faithful lieutenant. He is a
Jew, and his real name is Braunstein.
He is one of those Jews, unhappily too
prominent in Russian affairs Just now,
who are doing everything in their
power to prejudice the people of Rus
sia against the race, and to check the
movement .for the full freedom of the
Jews of the empire.
Trotzky, or Braunstein. Is known to
many 'in Xew York City. He gained
some newspaper publicity when he ar
rived in New York from Spain a short
time before the February revolution.
He posed as a martyr to Socialist prin
ciples, one who had been persecuted
by the governments of four countries
Russia, Germany, France and Spain. All
four had expelled him, he said, for the
crime of editing really successful So
cialist newspapers.
Story Fonnded on Fact.
Trotzky's story was founded on fact.
At least two countries did find him as
a citizen too undesirable to retain.
Banishment from Russia, under the old
regime. Is no stigma, so we may begin
Trotzky's saga in August, 1914, the be
ginning days of the world war.
He was editing a Jewish paper in
Berlin. He was given a few hours to
leave, he says, and with his family
fled across the Swiss frontier to Zurich.
From there he went to Paris, where he
was miraculously able, poor as he had
always been and high as the price of
white paper was soaring, to establish
a Socialist newspaper in the Russian
language. When the Russian con
tingent of the allied armies reached
France in April, 1916, Our Words, which
was the name of Trotzky'a spicy little
Bheet. was circulated free among the
Sa.OOO soldiers.
Trotxky Rank Pacifist.
The motto of the paper was down
with the war far more than it was up
with Socialism. It was filled from page
one to page four with the sort of pro
German stuff that has done its deadly
work with the men at the Russian
front, inducing tem to refuse to fight
and thus opening their country to the
German army.
The French government, which had
its hands full with its own pet sedition
raisers, had never before heard of
Trotzky, but now it told him to move
on. He did. He went to Spain, where
he was arrested as an extreme trouble
maker, and after a short time expelled
from the country. He came to the
United States, where he. remained until
the Russian revolution of late Feb
ruary. 1917. when he flew back to
Petrograd. Trotzky always had money
to make these long journeys.
At Halifax he was halted, for the
Knfflish government knew his record.
Pre-W ar
Priced
Table d'hote
BREAKFASTS
23c4 and up.
LUNCHES
250 and up.
DINNERS
35 and up.
Two Dining-rooms
Vegetable Dinner contin
uous daily after 11 A. M.
at 50c.
3tttpertal
Hotel .
business'
The English authorities considered In
terning him for the duration of the
war, but a lot of people interceded for
the poor Russian exile, and he was al
lowed to go on to, Russia. Poor Rus
sia! Trotzky was elected a member of the
Petrograd Council of Soldiers" and
Workmen's Delegates, being a pacifist
and never having done any manual
work. Last Summer when I was In
Russia I used to read almost daily In
the accounts of the National Council
of Soviets, or councils, burning speeches
or .trotzky's, in which he urged a sep
arate peace with Germany, or, what
would amount to exactly the same
thing Russia's Immediate cessation of
fighting.
Trotzky ridiculed the idea that
abandonment of the allies would in
any way injure Russia In a material
way or soil the national honor. His
ideas of economics and finances were
simply and frequently reiterated. Ar
rest all capitalists and force them to
disclose the secret of how they got
rich, and. hang all the bankers pre
sumably as the first step toward seiz
ing the contents of the banks.
With this man as chairman of the
central executive committee of the
Petrograd Council of Soldiers' and
Workmen's Delegates, and with the re
volt of the German naval men on five
ships for him to point to as evidence
that the social revolution is at hand
in Germany, the life of the new coali
tion government is not likely to be
peaceful.
End of BolKbevikl ar.
"Rut th dnH ef tho P.nlshpviirl i In
sight in spite of Lenine, Trotzky and
the entire majority in the. Council of
Soldiers' and Workmen's Delegates, it
nas Deen coming on steattny xeet lot
many months, and now the messenger's
hands are on the latch. The , mes
sengers' names are -hunger and cold.
When I went down to my first din
ner in Petrograd last Hay I was
Hina.uu it, e-ee. in pru c uu ic
card placed at 5 rubles 5$ copecks.
auouL 91.au. in a iieviuua hh "
PetrogTad I had eaten an excellent
dinner in this same hotel and had
paid for It 1 fSible 75 copecks, or about
75 cents, as the ruble was then valued.
The one offered for more than twice
this amount consisted of a watery
soup, a small piece of not very fresh
i i ; TiritVi non
1'SIl, iX null cm-: u l . . . " . r-
and a water ice. flavored with cherry
juice. One piece or DiacK. oreau wnu
out butter was served. If I wanted
water to drink, with the meal I had
-. v. i i ta water fnr
lO li v ruuica . , , . . .
one drink of plain water in Petrograd is
an attempt at suicide by the typhoid
route. If I wanted coffee I had to
pay 1 ruble 65 copecks more, ana unci
I added the customary 10 per cent for
the tip my check was 10 rubles 6
copecks $3.35.
This was bad enough, but before I
left Russia the price of that dinner
had advanced to 13 rubles and the
quality of the dinner had sensibly de--,t
i a T.n tv. a fin had advanced, for
after a strike of waiters a system was
adopted all over nussm, as
. 3 i v... ir.e n'nra ftholished
traveiea. wiieicu.' " : kui
and 15 per cent was added to the bill
by the hotel ana rniauiau.
pi-ietors.
Bread Price Trebled.
A bread ticket calls for three-quarters
of a pound, the daily allotment
per person when I left the last of
August. This costs at the rate of 10
copecks a pound. It used to be 3fe
copecks a pound.
Butter, when it can be bought at
all was three rubles a pound, about Jl.
Kxcellent butter a year or two ago was
less than 50 copecks a pound, for Rus
sia was rapidly becoming a dairy coun
try Veal, and veal is about the only
meat to be had, was nearly 1 a pound.
Fed for cattle is so scarce and so ex
pensive that cows are not allowed to
grow into beef size, hence the preva
lence of veal. Chickens may vary the
menu, if you can afford to pay from 3
upward. You could buy only a short
weight half pound of meat a day per
person, except for the Sunday dinner,
when a pound was allowed-
Even at the Hotel Militaire. where I
lived most of the time, and where the
food supply came from government
sources, we had veal or Its derivatives,
hash, croquettes, etc.. five days in the
week. Sometimes they offered what
they called beef, but it wasn't. It was
horsemeat, coarse and strong. Once a
week or so we had chicken, a welcome
change.
When August came we began to nave
game, grouse of various kinds mostly.
Game is very plentiful In Russia and
Finland this year, because since the
war men have hunted only one another.
But game, which is a treat when you
have it occasionally, is a punishment
when you have it more than once In
two weeks. xou aetest. n
appears on the table twice a week, and
if it appears oftener you choose a
meatless day as an alternative.
Tea National Drink.
Coffee is about J1.50 a pound, not so
bad, and tea was even more moderate
in price. What the Russian prople
would do if the tea gave out I cinnot
imagine. Everybody drinks tea, tcald
ing hot, several times a day. Even the
babies drink tea, and it is a fact that
in the best babies' hospital I saw in
Russia the head nurse proudly showed
me, in a hot water table, a wnoie row
of nursing bottles full of tea for the
sick babies evening repast.
Tea they still have, but they are al
most out of sugar to go with it. In a
hotel or restaurant they serve you' with
three very tiny lumps of sugar with
each glass of tea, and that is all you
can have. If for any reason you do
not use all your sugar you put it in
your pocket. You do this whether you
keep house or not, because you can't
buy much candy, and when meat is
scarce everybody craves sweets.
Sugar Is not the only leftover one
takes home. One day I went into the
Vienna restaurant on the Gogol for
dinner, sitting down at a table just
vacated by a very smart young officer.
He left behind him on the window
ledge a little parcel neatly wrapped In
white paper with a pink string. It
might have been a jeweler's parcel. I
picked it up with the impulse to hand
it over to the waiter, but first, as a
matter of precaution, lest It should be
really valuable, I opened a corner of
the paper and examined the contents,
a piece of fairly white bread as big as
a small turnip, the remains of luncheon,
perhaps, at the house of a rich friend.
LOANS SH0WJHUGE TOTAL
Government's Advances to Allies
Now Amount to 82,714,4 00,000.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 16. Loans of
$30,000,000 to Russia, $25,000,000 to
Great Britain, $20,000,000 to France and
$3,000,000 to Belgium, made today,
brought the total credits of the United
States to allied nations up to $2,711,
400.000. Regimental Review Planned.
TACOMA, Wash., Oct.' 16. (Special.)
Due to urgent requests from all
points in the state it is probable that
Adjutant-Gerferal Maurice Thompson
will arrange a reception and regimental
review at Camp Lewis for the Second
Washington Regiment before it leaes
for Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C. The
war strength of the regiment is 2065
officers and men. The unit will leave
for the southern training camp within
a week, the first state body from the
Northwest to reach there. An effort is
being made to raise a $5000 mess fund
for the soldiers.
Mayor Barton Ont of Race.
NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., Oct. 16.
(Special.) After a recurrence of a
malady which recently came near caus
ing his death. Mayor J. F. Barton to
day withdrew from the race for nom
ination for another term, .
TEUTONS ADVANCE
OH GULF OF RIGA
Russian Batteries at Serel on
Svorb Peninsula Are
Object of Attack.
BERLIN REPORTS SUCCESS
Naval Battle in Soela Sound Results
in Iioss of Three Torpedo' Boats,
One Being Russian, According
to Petrograd Advices.
PETROGRAD, Oct. 16. The German
landing force on the Russian island of
Oesel is developing- its success, the
Russian War Office announces today.
and the Teutons are being reinforced
nn aaaitionar troops.
This attack is directed against the
Svorb Peninsula, in the southwestern
section of tli island, with the object
of capturing the Russian batteries at
Serel. The batteries rover- the en
trance to the Gulf of Riga.
Torpedo-Boats Sank:.
Two German torpedo-boats were
sunk, two others were damaged and
one Russian torpedo-boat went to the
bottom in an engagement in Soela
Sound, north of Oesel Island.
The Russian torpedo craft sunk was
the Grom. a destroyer of 1100 tons
built in 1914-15; speed 34 knots, com
plement. 93 men. More than a dozen
German torpedo-boats had forced their
way through Soela Sound, supported
by a German battleship, when they
were met by. the Russians and turned
back.
BERLIN, Oct. 16. (Official.) Runo
and Abro, islands in the Gulf of Riga,
have been occupied by the Germans.
Prisoners and Guns Captured.
The Germans have captured 2400
prisoners on Oesel Island and 30 guns,
II machine guns and several airplanes.
The essential part of the Germans'
task on the island was accomplished
in four days.
Abro and Runo are small islands,
each about three miles long. Abro is
off the southern coast of Oesel Island,
about 19 miles from Arensburg. Runo
is in the middle of the gulf, 20 miles
east of the Courland coast.
The German operations in and
around the Gulf of Riga, which have
centered attention upon the Northern
Russian ' front for several days past,
are not likely to be extended this Fall
to the Gulf of Finland on the route
to Reval, Cronstadt and Petrograd, in
the opinion of Russian naval authori
ties. The lateness of the season will
have the effect of localizing the Ger
man effort, the Minister of Marine believes.-
shotsIre exchanged
PROWLER, ATTEMPTING TO CRIP
PLE WATER SYSTEM, FIRED OX.
Guard Report They Discovered a
Stranger Taking Pictures of
Bremerton Plant Recently.
BREMERTON, Wash.. Oct. 16. (Spe
cial.) A dozen revolver shots were ex
changed early today between a watch
man and an engineer of the Bremer
ton Water Works and an unidentified
man who officers asserted, was at
tempting to cripple the water system
which supplies Bremerton and the
Puget Sound Navy-yard. None of the
shots took effect. The stranger
escaped.
Special guards were placed around
the water works tour nignts ago oy
Superintendent William Bell, when re
ports came to him that a stranger had
been discovered taking pictures of the
Dlant with a camera partially hidden
under his coat. A fishing party also
recently reported they overheard two
strangers plotting damage to the
works.
Charles Weidlick, watchman, and E.
B. Knight, engineer, reported they saw
the prowler dodge behind a stump near
the water-works power station. W hen
thewo employes opened fire the stran
ger raised up, fired six shots and fled,
they said.
Progress of the War.
APPARENTLY there has been no ces
sation in the rapid programme of
the Germans to seize in its entirety
the Russian island of Oesel at the head
of the Gulf of Finland. But although
their troops now have taken the great
er portion of the island, the aid they
had expected from their fleet in put
ting down Russian opposition in adja
cent waters is meeting with consid
erable resistance from the Russian
warships. ,
The Russians are disinclined to throw
their naval vessels into a general en
gagement with the invaders, but in a
small battle with torpedo craft and
possibly light cruiser?, the Russians
have sunk two German torpedo-boats
and damaged two others in ' Soela
Sound, to the north of Oesel Island,
while the Russians themselves lost a
torpedo-boat destroyer. The German
vessels which were accompanied by a
battleship, put to sea arter the engage
ment. The German land forces now are
driving hard against the Svorb Penin
sula, on the southwestern portion of
the island of Oesel, with the object of
capturing the batteries at Serel, which
dominate the eastern entrance to the
Gulf of Riga. According to the Berlin
War Office, the Russians in this re
gion are isolated, but are desperately
resisting.
Berlin reports also that Abro Island,
eff the southern coast of Oesel. and
Runo Island, in the middle of the Gulf
of Riga, have been -occupied by Teu
tonic troops. It is asserted- that 2400
prisoners, 30 guns, 21 machine guns
and several airplanes were captured by
the Germans in Oesel.
The troops of the entente allies are
still keeping to their trenches in Flan
ders, probably awaiting betterment of
soil conditions. Possibly, however.
Field Marshal Haig aid the French
commander on his left have not yet
sufficiently pounded the German lines
with their big- guns to warrant the
turning loose of the -infantry for fur
ther gains. Day and night the British
and French - guns are showering the
German . positions with the usual mass
of steel and the Germans are replying
vigorously.
To the south along the Aisne front
the Germans, after a lively bombard
ment, have again attacked the French
and succeeded in penetrating their en
trench me nia. . Ilie French immediately
counter attacked and regained the lost
ground.
There is every indication that shortly
along the lsonzo front In the Austro
Italian zone another big battle will be
gin. From the head of the Adriatic
northward to the Bainsizza plateau In
tense artillery duels are in progress.
Considerable activity also Is in prog
ress on the Carso.
Aerial raida in force have been re
sumed by British naval aviators on
German positions In Belgium. The
Bruges docks and several airdromes
have been successfully bombed.
British casualties continue to show
a declining rate. The total reported
in the last week was 14,096. as corn
pared with 17. SOS for the week closing
October 9. and 21.179 for the preceding I
! week. This is despite the fact that .
the British have been heavily engaged
in Flanders during the past three
weeks.
Soldiers at Fort Columbia
Buy Bonds.
"Watch Her Climb." la the Motto
Adopted at Fort Columbia.
FORT COLUMBIA. Wash, Oct. 16. ,
(Special.) Fourth Company, reg
ulars of the Coast Artillery Corps is
in the lead for subscriptions for the
second liberty bond issue at Fort Co
lumbia. Up to midnight Saturday the
score stood as follows:
Fourth Company, $3900, number sub
scribing. 51; officers of post, $2400,
number subscribing, 11; Seventh Com
pany, $1450. number subscribing, 23;
Tenth Company, $900, number subscxlbr
ing, 16; civilian, $250, number subscrib
ing, 1; hospital detachment, $200. num
ber subscribing, 3; total, $9100; total
number subscribing, 105.
The total for the entire coast de
fenses is $63,900. Fort Columbia did
not make a very great showing at
first, but "Watch Her Climb" is the
motto for the fort.
October IS will be one of the big
days for the forts. This is known 'as
Coast Defense Liberty Bond day. The
entire military personnel of Fort Co-:
lumbia will go by special boat to Fort '
Canby and there engage in sports and
listen to speeches. The, schedule is as
follows: Meet will begin promptly at
9:20 A. M. The field events will be
100-yard dash, tug of war, baseball re
lay throwing contest, relay running
race and grenade throwing. Each com
pany will enter teams as follows: 100
yard dash, two men; tug of war. 10
men; baseball throwing, any number;
relay race, 10 men; grenade-throwing
contest, 10 men.
The basis for counting points will
be as follows:
1st. 2d. 3d.
loo-yard dash 5 3 1
Tuir-of-war .10 6 J
Uaseball-throwing relay contest ..lO 6 - -Running
relay contest ...10 n 2
Grenade throwing . 10 6 2
It is proposed to award prizes in
the form of post exchange credit for
events on basis of $1 credit for each
point scored..
A trophy suitably engraved will be
awarded to the team winning the most
points.
The rainy weather caused several of
the boys to return from the cranberry
fields. The boys report a good time,
but the pay did not much more than
pay the expenses.
Coast defenses are on the Hoover
plan of one meatless day for each week.
Recent orders are to the effect that
one day in each week no meat will be
served other than bacon. The general
complaint in regard to the feeding of
the boys is that they are getting too
much for the good of their stomachs.
-
A change in the personnel of theof-
ficers took place today: Major Willard
L. Coppernoll, Oregon Coast Artillery,
was relieved as fort commander and
assigned to duty as fire commander
of third fire command. Fort Stevens.
Lieutenant-Colonel Berton K. Lawson,
Oregon Coast Artillery, was relieved as
fort commander of Fort Canby and as
signed to duty as fort commander of
Fort Columbia. First Lieutenant El
mer T. Foss. Oregon Coast Artillery,
was transferred from duty with the
Seventh Company, Oregon Coast Artil
lery, at Fort Columbia to duty on 'the
staff of fort commander. Fort Stevens.
The Lieutenant is the oldest officer
of the Seventh Company Sn point of
Bervice. The boys will miss him.
PARTY OFF FOR EUROPE
TEX MEMBERS OF" CONGRESS TO
VISIT WAR FRONTS.
Repreiientatlvea Expect to Go .to Ens
land, BelKlum, France, Italy
and Sirltnerland.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. Ten mem
bers of Congress traveling In unofficial
capacity, but carrying epeclal paBsports
arranged .for by the State Department,
are on the way to Europe to visit the
war fronts and fraternize with the par
liamentary representatives of the al
lies. In the party are Representatives
Dale. Vermont; Taylor and. Timber
lake. Colorado; Hicks, New York; John
son, Dill and Miller, of Washington;
Goodwin. Arkansas; Stephens, Nebras
ka, and Parker. New Jersey; . ex
Representative Stout, of Montana, and
Ross Li. Hammond, a Fremont, Neb.,
editor, and others. -
The visit is a development of the re
cent cabled and personal invitations for
closer affiliation of the parliamentary
bodies of the allied governments
through personal conference's at the
British, French and Italian capitals.
.President Wilson did not favor Con
gress officially accepting the invitation
at this time and neither house took ac
tion, but the 10 members arranged their
trip informally. Other representatives
are expected to follow soon.
Members of the party are armed with
letters of identification to Ambassador
Sharp at Paris, to General Pershing
and others. They will visit England
Belgium. France. Italy and Switzerland
and hope to be back in Washington in
time for the opening of (Congress in
uecemoer.
BRIDGE FALLS ON CHILDREN
Pnpils Endangered When Shelter
Breaks Under Weight of Cattle.
BAKER. Or., (5ct. IS. (Special.)
Several school children at Prairie City
narrowly escaped death when a bridge
under 'which they had taken refuge
from a .herd of . passing cattle broke
with the weight ot the stock and
plunged some of the animals into the
John Day River.
All of the children escaped serious
injury.
' Realty Deal Aids loan.
TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 16. (Special.)
When Dave- -Gross,- San Francisco
capitalist, had concluded negotiations
here today for a plot of land to be used
as a theater site he Immediately in
vested $10,000 of the money received
in liberty bonds. The lease taken by
John S. Baker, banker, from Gross will
give him a ground rental of 1275.000,
extended over a period of . SO years.
Gross made much of his money as a
1 merchant here, but has lived In San
Franciaco tor s number oX year, .
llif
ittli
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50c Perry Davis'
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$3.75 Horlick's Malted Milk
25c Widaman's Goat Milk 20d
16 oz. Dentox for Pyorrhoea. ...50J
$1.00 Parker's Hair Balsam 87d
25c Pierce's Pellets 20d
$1.00 Delatone 90d
$1.00 Bell's Revelation, 3 for $3.51)
Molena Revelation
25c Amolin
Hallowe'en Favors
I Invitations, napkins, place cards, crepe
paper, stick-ups and cut-outs.
I Autocrat Linen
10 STYLES .OF ENVELOPES
i to choose from. An excellent linen paper
I at 50
I Our Line of Birthday Cards
I and particular occasion cards fills every
1 want.
TEUTON IS DUPED
Yankee Skipper Tells How
Seeadler Was Destroyed.
RAIDER LURED TO ROCKS
German Ship, Ieft at Mercy of
Tide and Waves, Soon Goes
: to Pieces Ore Mopclia
Island.
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 16.-How the
German commerce raider Seeadler was
destroyed through a plot hatched by
Captain Haldor Smith, of the American
schooner R. C. 'Slade. after the raider
had sunk- the Slade, was told by Cap
tain Smith upon his arrival from the
Society Islands here today.
While off the Island of Mopeha, one
of the Society group, the Seeadler
slipped her anchor and started to drift
to sea. Captain Smith declared. He
Induced the German commander to
moor the vessel close to the lee shore,
where she had no chance to swing
around. While all those with the vessel,
excepting a few men on watch, were
enjoying a frolic on shore, the tide
came up. jamming the raider on the
rocks. Her guns summoned all back
to the ship, but nothing could be done
to save her.
The Slade was overtaken on June 17
and sunk the following morning. Aboard
the raider at the time was the crew of
the A. B. Johnson, a San Francisco
vessel, which had been sunk two weeks
before.
The raider then cruised for two
weeks without sighting a vessel. Then
a rift in a fog bank disclosed the
American schooner Manila. Three shots
from the raider forced the Manila to
heave to. Her crew was taken on the
raider and the vessel dynamited.
Another fortnight passed without in
cident and the Seeadler finally
anchored off. Mopeha. Following her
destruction some of the members of
her crew fitted out a motor-boat with
guns, ammunition and food, all of
which had been saved from the wreck,
and started out on a new raiding ex
pedition. Smith and the captain of the Manila
took charge of the situation on the
island. They rigged up a wireless
and got in touch with Honolulu, Pago
Pago and other distant points.
The Germans who did not accom
pany the motor-boat expedition blew
up the masts of the Seeadler, so that
her location could not be determined
by pursuing war vessels of the allies.
Later the French trading schooner
Lutcea landed at the Island. The
Germans took possession of this
and again put to sea. Finally Captain
Smith fitted up a whaleboat and taking
three men with him, started out for
Tutuila, Samoa, 100 miles away. He
reached there in ten -days.
TORTURE IS CHARGED
ENGLISH MEN AND WOMEX MIS
TREATED BY GERMANS.
Report From East Africa Is Terrible
Indictment Against Teuton
Officialdom.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 16. Insults and
physical torture inflicted upon helpless
English men and women by their Ger
man captors in German East Africa in
the early days of the war form the
subject of a special British parlia
mentary paper, copies of which have
jusr reached this country.
This report, embracing the sworn
testimony of many missionaries and
native teachers, .will form part of the
terrible Indictment against German of
ficialdom at the end of the war. The
affidavits are by British civlliass,
mostly missionaries, men and women,
who were engaged In church work
among the natives and who under all
rules of warfare should have been per
mitted to quit German territory In
safety upon 24 hours' notice after tha
outbreak of the -war. Permission to
leave was refused ty the German of
ficials on the ground of "military
exigencies" and the civilians were
kept as prisoners, the testimony says,
confined in crowded quarters, with in
sufficient food and much of that unfit
for consumption,' and forced to do air
sorts of exhausting labor so that some
were permanently injured in health.
very. effort was made to degrads
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50c Cal. Fig Syrup 40d
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the prisoners in the eyes of the na
tives. The men were obliged to act as
laborers for native masons and to per
form many degrading tasks. The
women were declared to have been
obliged to witness the bathing of Ger
man soldiers and to submit to Insults
and abuse from tho native guards and
German civilians.
DONKEY ENGINEER HURT
Brakeman on Logging Road Loses
Arm In Mishap.
CLATSKANIE. Or., Oct. 16. (Spe
cial.) Jack Applegate, employed by
the Fish Hawk Dogging Company as a
donkey engineer, was severely injured
yesterday. Applegate had reversed his
machine and started ahead when the
friction on the donkey suddenly broke,
causing the lever to fly back with great
force. The lever struck the man in
the side and threw him to the ground.
Applegate's hip was slightly fractured
and his side bruised. A tobacco can
In the man's pocket was struck by the
released lever. Baving him from per
haps fatal Injury. Applegate was taken
to a hospital at Astoria.
Emanuel Kridbaum, of the Sunnyside
camp, was severely Injured Saturday.
He was employed as brakeman and
while bringing a load down the hill,
tightening the brakes, the brake-chain
broke and threw him under the wheels.
As a result of his Injuries the ampu
tation of his left arm was found neces
sary.
CITY FUEL IS REQUESTED
Officials Will Know October 2 4
What Help They Can Give.
The city will know on October 24
lust what it will be able to do in the
way of supplying fuel in Portland. Bids
for fuel will be opened on that date.
according to arrangements completed
yesterday.
Bids have been asked for on various
features of the business, including the
furnishing of stumpage, the cutting of
wood, the furnishing of wood already
cut. the furnishing of slabwood, the
hauling of wood and the furnishing and
hauling of 10,000 tons of coal.
All sorts of inquiries are being re
celved from persons who say they have
been unable to buy fuel and want to
order from the city.
RICHMOND IS NOT SLACKER
Man Arrested for Strike Disturb
ancc Produces Card.
Allen E. Richmond. 24 years old, who
was arrested during the strike dls-1
turbance Monday afternoon, yesterday '
produced his registration card showing
that he was duly registered and not a
"slacker," as was thought likely when
he failed to "produce his card. Rich
mond explained to the police later that
his card was at home, and when he
was released produced it.
He registered in District No. 62 and
bears No. 20. He lives at Broadway
and Jefferson street.
ITALIAN WINE CONFISCATED
Whisky and IIome-Made Beer Also
Taken in Raid.
Another drive yesterday morning on
Italian wine manufacturers by Patrol
men Wright, Nelson and Elliott re
sulted in the confiscation of 150 gal
lons of wine and several quarts of
whisky and homemade beer at 207
Montgomery street. R, Petrone and
R. Rizzo were arrested for violations
of the prohibition law.
In addition to the liquor the police
seized a large wine press, which was
w
E want to thank the people of Portland
for their excellent co-operation with
us in keeping the Hoover pledge.
Every Tuesday will be meatless day,
every Wednesday we serve war bread.
The Portland
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BRING THIS
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and get 50 S. & H. Green
Trading Stamps with any
cash picture framing order
amounting to one dollar
or more. Good today, Oc
tober 17.
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50c Lablache Powder 39?
50c Java Riz Powder 39
25c Pond's Extract Vanishing
Cream, tube 20
Roger & Gallet Powder de Riz. -30r
10c Utopia Soap, 3 for 19
10c Creme Oil Soap, 3 for 25d
Basement Fall Cleaning
Helps
O'Cedar Mops, 75c, $1.25.
All the standard makes
of Floor Wax.
Wood-Lark Cedar Oil for
all mops, 20c, 40c, $1.00,
$1.50, $2.00.
Wood-Lark Furniture Pol
Stamps First Three Floors
also taken to police headquarters. The
Italians are said to have admitted the
ownership of the liquor. ;-
ARREST MADE AT SEATTLE
Charles F. Comfort Suspected of
Complicity in Girl Murder.
SEATTLE. Wash.. Oct. 16. Charles F.
Comfort, of Ballard, a Seattle suburb.
was arrested tonight In connection with
the murder of 17-year-old Ruby De-
merrit, whose decapitated body was
found in the woods near the city limits
Sunday.
Jasper Bailey, the first man arrested.
was released late today after estab
lishing a complete alibi.
Pat McGinn, who was the girl's escort
to a dance the night of September 1, in
still In prison. The police declare he
was the last man known to have been
with the girl the morning of Septem
ber 2. the day she is believed to havo
been murdered.
9
Overcoat
Mornings
are what these cooler
mornings might be
called.
and speaking of Over
coats, come in and see
what an extensive as
sortment we will show
you.
Our "Glamorgan" i s
most popular for an
Overcoat that hangs
loosely from the should
ers and suggests roomi
ness and comfort.
Knox Imported English
Coats are very attract
ive and appeal to good
dressers.
Trench Coats catch the
fancy of the nobby
young man and are con
sidered very correct in
style.
Every desirable style is
here, the tailoring of the
best and the prices
range from
$20 to $65
Buff tan &
Pendleton Col
Clothiers, Hatters and
Haberdashers
137 SIXTH STREET
30 Steps from Wnk, St.
T. N. PENDLETON.
WINTHROP HAMMOND.
BUY A IilBERTY BOND
BECAUSE
"It is insurance against
the loes of Arae 'can arm
ies in France; it is insur
ance no lens against tho
loss of American capital at
home, American labor at
home, American family at
home, American everything
at home."
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HAMTLLY.
Lunch
50c